and now, for something completely different

THIS is about the funniest thing I've read all year, the manifesto of the Logic Liberation League.

Though the league is a shadowy secret revolutionary organization who reputably have enough reach to be able to present arguments anywhere in the world at a moment's notice, a close study of the web site of (friend of a friend of the Blog) JC Beall reveals some hints about their true identity (click HERE and scroll down to the part that says "Logic Liberation League" for links to all of the member's web pages).

Anyhow, here is the final part of the manifesto, wisdom that still rings in the hearts of all true lovers of logic. After movingly recounting the oppresion of logic types by a philosophy department softball team composed of mostly metaphysicians and ethicists, the manifesto concludes with this stirring call to revolution not just in the softball field, but everywhere:

        Do not be deceived, Establishment pigs (this means you too,
                Establishment dogs). The subservience of past generations
                of logicians does not mean that we shall bear forever our
                treatment as animals (you barnyard fowl). We are human
                beings (you swine). You are living in a day when logicians
                will not any longer endure your taunts, your slurs, your
                insults (you filthy vermin). In the name of A. N. Whitehead
                and B. Russell we gather; in the spirit of R. Carnap and
                A. Tarski, we march; by the word of W. V. O. Quine, we shall
                prevail. Beware you snakes of the Philosophical Power
                Structure, which you have created and which you maintain to
                put down the logician; you have caged the eagle of reason,
                the dove of wisdom, and the lark of a definite, precisely
                formulated formal system, with exact formation rules, a
                recursive set of axioms, and clear and cogent rules of
                inference, and you have made them your pigeons. Oh, you
                filterable viruses, we will shake you off and fly once more.